| It is a preventive strategy to avert internal or external conflict in and by countries. |
| Because the organizations can tolerate internal conflict and are only intermittently engaged in external conflict, they are able to attain larger size. |
| The torture situation is an external conflict, a conflict between the subject and his tormentor. |
| It is no external conflict that has thus worn and bowed him down in less than half a year. |
| Outside a few weak arguments, external conflict is avoided, and internal struggles are largely unexpressed. |
| He did not find any significant correlation between Syrian internal and external conflict behavior toward other nations in the region. |
